100 years ago, the President of Harvard University claimed you could get a solid liberal education by reading a certain collection of books that would fit on a five-foot shelf. What’s been added to – or taken off – that shelf since? Anchor Jeb Sharp finds out.
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See also

• July 17, 2009 -- What’s on your Five Foot Shelf?
• July 13, 2009 -- Add to the five-foot shelf
• October 14, 2009 -- Listeners note
• September 1, 2009 -- ‘Misery literature’ for kids